Flexitools 2013 - 5th International Workshop on Flexible Modeling Tools

Filipe Correia, University of Porto, Portugal
Ademar Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal
Louis Rose, University of York, UK
André van der Hoek, University of California, Irvine, United States
Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Dustin Wüest, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Formal modeling and informal/free-form authoring tools have complementary strengths and weaknesses, but users are often forced to choose a specific style of work over the other. Flexible Modeling Tools hold the promise of blending the advantages of both approaches, allowing users to make tradeoffs between flexibility and precision and to move smoothly between the two approaches. They might be modeling tools with added flexibility, or free-form approaches with added modeling support, or tools of a new kind. They may embody new and more flexible approaches to the capture and analysis of models e.g. for extraction of models from natural language, flexible design of DSLs, detection of and/or tolerating inconsistency, augmenting and linking models to other models or loosely formalized contents. They may provide flexible visualization approaches as well as or instead of editing.
The goal of this workshop will be to identify a) a foundational set of challenges and concerns for the field of flexible modeling and b) emerging promising directions for addressing them. It will bring together people who understand tool users' needs, usability, user interface design and tool infrastructure.
Urlhttp://softeng.fe.up.pt/flexitools/2013/